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$8.01

back in stock as of
september 23rd, 2006

first in stock on
july 23rd, 2005

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
minimalism-drones

antiopic (usa) #an 006 cd

sakada “never give up on the margins of logic” three inch compact disc

never give up on the margins of logic (17:33)

the first widely available recording (following a few i still haven’t seen on mattin’s w.m.o/r label) from this electro-acoustic freely improvising ensemble co-led by computer-musician mattin and (former?) amm percussionist eddie prévost; a transcription of a live-set (excerpt?) from the freedom of the city festival on may 3rd, 2003.

the 17.5 minutes go by in a whir of bowed cymbal harmonics, 12k sine tones, scrabbly contact-mic’ed elements, and the occasional guttural wail of a low-strung double bass. a highly succesful mix of chance elements referencing the history of live electronic music from david tudor’s first experiments in the 60s through richard teitlebaum’s synth-processing getup of the early 80s right on through contemporary computer-based algorithms...

antiopic press release...

sakada
rhodri davies: harp
eddie prévost: percussion
mattin: computer feedback
margarida garcia: double bass
mark wastell: amplified textures

“for london's freedom of the city festival mattin's sakada materializes in a big band incarnation. unexpectedly, the larger the group, the smaller the sound. in contrast to sakada's dense previous recordings as the trio of mattin, prévost and rosy parlane, here the expanded sakada navigate a more restrained and open territory. droning passages rise and ebb in blocks, the sound folding over on itself, while minute textures dance on the edges. the emphasis on bowed sounds (prévost's cymbals, davies' harp, garcia's bass, wastell's objects and mattin's computer casing (!!!)) brings to mind the slow churning of a morton feldman composition, yet mutated further into the realm of the unexpected and abstract. this recording finds a group as attuned to the space in between as they are to each other. an intense document of precisely restrained improvisation.”

$12.85

new to stock as of
october 27th, 2008

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
digital-musics
concert-recordings
site-specific

cathnor (uk) #cath 005 cd

rhodri davies / david lacey / dennis mcnulty “poor trade” compact disc

tried in the scales and found wanting (23:36)
the distance (10:37)
cork skinned room (11:48)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "the distance"

cathnor press release...

cath005
rhodri davies, david lacey, dennis mcnulty
poor trade

released april 2008
oversized digipack design by olaf oxleay.

rhodri davies
harp and electronics

david lacey
percussion and electronics

dennis mcnulty
computer

in september 2006 a welshman, rhodri davies, travelled to ireland to play harp with two irishmen, david lacey (percussion and electronics) and dennis mcnulty (computer). the trio recorded in st patrick's church in dalkey, just south of dublin as children played in the school playground next door and roadworkers went about their business along the road.

poor trade, the resulting cd is a rich, colourful swell of detailed improvisation captured in the moment by the skilled microphone of david reid. sensually brooding in places, gloriously alive in others this is passionate, joyous music.

$16.14

new to stock as of
april 30th, 2007

threads:
free-improvisation

confront (uk) #confront 11 cd

rhodri davies “trem” compact disc

cresis (8:45)
undur (5:04)
trem (7:02)
beres (6:24)
plosif (3:16)
berant (6:11)
atam (3:40)

confront press release...

rhodri davies
trem
(confront, confront 11) (uk) (cd)

rhodri davies: harp (1, 2, 4, 5, 6); percussion, tape (3)

recorded live by tim fletcher at all angels, london, may 10 (1, 2), november 22 (4, 6), and december 7 (3, 5, 7), 2001
mastered by simon vincent
design by damien beaton

released in january 2003

trem documents the continuing development of rhodri's uniquely innovative solo voice on the harp. the cd was recorded live during 2001 at all angels, the series of london based concerts he co-ran with mark wastell. rhodri's extended prepared harp techniques are rewriting the history of the instrument. influenced by live electronics, music-concrete and electronica he explores noise, silence, texture and abstract sound on his acoustic instrument.

$10.14

new to stock as of
april 30th, 2007

threads:
free-improvisation
electro-acoustic-improvisation
digital-musics

confront collectors series (uk) #ccs6 cd

traw / rhodri davies “cwymp y dwr ar ganol dydd” compact disc

sychryd (6:29)
sgwd yr eira (10:02)
einion gam (5:35)
mellte (5:30)
y pannwr (11:07)
llia (4:48)

confront collectors series press release...

traw & rhodri davies
cwymp y dwr ar ganol dydd
(confront, ccs6) (uk) (cd)

richard llewellyn, owen martell, simon proffitt: real-time sampling and processing
rhodri davies: harp, electronics, accelerometer

recorded in cardiff, wales, july 12, 2005
released in 2006

the cardiff-based trio of improvising laptoppers, traw, have only one previous recording to their name, congratulations to the young men of nelson, issued as part of fourier transform's white box cd-r series in a one-off edition of 50 copies. having thus satisfactorily introduced themselves to adventurous music lovers worldwide, they now follow up congratulations with an even more expansive project, cwymp y dwr ar ganol dydd, on which they are joined by their fellow countryman rhodri davies. a celebrated harpist perhaps best known for his work in free improvisation, davies also commissions and performs works by contemporary composers such as james saunders, catherine kontz, michael parsons and carole finer, as well as fluxus artists yasunao tone and mieko shiomi, and he’s an occasional member of anton lukoszevieze’s new music ensemble apartment house.

in making cwymp y dwr ar ganol dydd, each member of traw took away a selection of davies’ harp + electronics material (recorded by michael sansom at surrey university) and processed them according to his own lights. in july 2005, when the group reconvened in the company of davies, they improvised with this de- or re-personalised material to make new sound configurations. davies too was improvising, in this case with his own transmogrified self, and a live feed of his playing was also available to traw for further manipulation. it’s as though davies had stepped into a sonic hall of mirrors.

traw is a welsh word meaning pitch, or, in a more poetic sense, diapason, a wholeness, an encompassing. the cd title translates as the water falls at morning’s end, and all of the track titles are water-related, named after rivers or waterfalls around the pontneddfechan/ystradfellte area of south wales. but there’s more to it than that: "mellte", a river, also refers to lightning, and "einion gam", the name of a waterfall, means crooked anvil.

on cwymp y dwr ar ganol dydd, the music is subjected to elemental fire, forged, and doused with water to toughen it up. but forge also means ‘to fake’, and that too is appropriate: a gloriously fake rhodri davies is presented in this recording.

$14.71

back in stock as of
october 22nd, 2007

first in stock on
june 18th, 2007

threads:
free-improvisation

creative sources (portugal) #cs 031 cd

rhodri davies / robin hayward / julia eckhardt / lucio capece “amber” compact disc

creative sources press release...

amber | cs031

rhodri davies harp
robin hayward tuba
julia eckhardt viola
lucio capece soprano saxophone, bass clarinet

total time 42:42 © 2005

recorded on april 2004 in berlin

cover design carlos santos

$13.31

new to stock as of
august 23rd, 2008

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation

formed.records (usa) #formed 108 cd

burkhard beins / lucio capece / rhodri davies / toshimaru nakamura “slw” compact disc

slw (56:27)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "slw"

formed.records press release...

formed 08: beins • capece • davies • nakamura - slw

following on the critically lauded ij, formed is pleased to announce slw, a quartet featuring burkhard beins, lucio capece, rhodri davies, and toshimaru nakamura. the album captures these improvisors at their finest, blending their unique approaches to improvisation into a dynamic field. the great creative range of these performers gives the single improvisation an episodic feel, with layers of interaction and frames of sound moving around each other.

$20.47

new to stock as of
march 17th, 2008

threads:
free-improvisation
electro-acoustic-improvisation

musica genera (poland) #mg 006 cd

chris burn “ensemble at musica genera 2002” compact disc

zaczac (6:51)
rotacja (9:52)
qpdbqp (8:26)
strach na wroble (9:18)
kontynuowac (5:22)
konczyc (7:57)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "strach na wroble"

musica genera press release...

mg 006 : chris burn's ensemble
"ensemble at musica genera 2002"

chris burn: piano
john butcher: tenor or soprano saxophone
matchew hutchinson: synth
rhodri davies: harph
nikos veliotis: cello
xavier charles: clarinet

$10.51

back in stock as of
june 27th, 2007

first in stock on
march 20th, 2007

threads:
free-improvisation

siwa (usa) #siwa 0003 lp

ist “anagrams to avoid” long playing record

index of microgrooves (6:33)
strim stram strellach (10:50)
adolphus hailstork and the barlow (5:05)
chwit chwat chwilen bwgan (12:50)
used sacks to iceland (8:23)
a beaker full of death (3:50)

siwa press release...

siwa#3
ist (simon h fell, mark wastell, rhodri davies)
"anagrams to avoid" lp

studio recordings from 1995 of duo and trio improvisations for bass, cello and harp.

$68.23

new to stock as of
august 28th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
electro-acoustic-composition
sound-art

sound323 (uk) #sound323 blocks book

brian marley / mark wastell “blocks of consciousness and the unbroken continuum” book and digital versatile disc set

introduction by the editors
brian marley - john cage: qualities of silence
rhodri davies - what are you doing with your music? answers to this question by otomo yoshihide / phil durrant / annette krebs / graham halliwell / xavier charles / bernhard günter / andrea neumann / lee patterson / sean meehan / matt davis / mattin / ruth barberán / burkhard beins / isabelle duthoit / jérôme noetinger / angharad davies / takehiro nishide / nikos veliotis / james saunders / johan berthling / taku unami / steve roden / margarida garcia
clive bell - sachiko m: ah, the sweet torture
dan warburton - les instants composés
andy hamilton - the necks
david reid - performances - video chapter (see below)
brian marley - john wall: the rocky road to cphon
bertrand denzler and jean-luc guionnet - out in the field
will montgomery - on the surface of silence: reticence in the music of richard chartier
david toop - the feeling of rooms

dvd features live concert performances from :

keith rowe: derby dance centre, derby, 23 november 2003
evan parker: st michael and all angels, chiswick, london, 11 october 2001
birdyak: freedom of the city, conway hall, london, 4 may 2002
john tilbury: ongaku, st cyprians, london, 25 november 2003
anton lukoszevieze & eddie prévost: freedom of the city, conway hall, london, 6 may 2002
broken consort: whitworth gallery, manchester, 20 july 2003
jérôme noetinger: the termite club, adelphi public house, leeds, 26 march 2004
john butcher: st michael and all angels, chiswick, london, 22 november 2001
tetuzi akiyama: ongaku, 291 gallery, london, 15 june 2003
nmperign: sound 323, highgate, london, 5 june 2004.

superb coffee-table book & dvd set, edited by brian marley & mark wastell, exquisitely designed/laid-out by damien beaton, and pubslished via mark’s label/shop sound323... an absolute joy to behold / read / view ; highly recommended.

sound323 press release...

blocks of consciousness and the unbroken continuum.

book + dvd.
editors: brian marley and mark wastell.
published by sound 323.
341 printed pages - full colour. hardback.
publishing date - 1st january 2006

what is the most significant development that has occurred in adventurous music during the last decade? it's arguably neither a technique-driven development nor a technological one. rather, it's how we, musicians and audience alike, have opened our ears to the world and embraced its sounds as both a musical resource and as music itself. blocks of consciousness and the unbroken continuum explores the work and aesthetic of various cutting edge musicians, environmental/sound artists and noise-makers.

as well as profiles of richard chartier, the necks, john wall and sachiko m, the book contains explorations of the history and changing nature of free improvisation, of cage's iconoclastic 4'33", and of where to draw the line (somewhat tentatively, to be sure) between improvisation and composition.

there is, in addition, a series of personal statements by almost two dozen musicians, composers and sound artists, collected by rhodri davies; and in out in the field bertrand denzler and jean-luc guionnet interview improvisers about their music and group the anonymised answers thematically. the authors of the principal chapters - david toop, clive bell, brian marley, dan warburton, andy hamilton and will montgomery - are well-known and respected writers on music/sound. machines, noise and improvisation are factors common to all of the chapters in the book. david reid's dvd selection of video performances also carries this theme. the performances, all filmed during the last five years and part of his growing archive, represent a diverse range of musicians and their musics.

note, however, that the dvd content is neither illustrative of nor subordinate to the written material in the book; it comprises a chapter in its own right.

a feature of blocks of consciousness and the unbroken continuum that will be much remarked upon is damien beaton's lavish design, which makes the book so much more than a mere receptacle for words.

$9.01

back in stock as of
january 21st, 2008

first in stock on
february 24th, 2005

threads:
sound-art
psych-prog
modern-composition
minimalism-drones
harsh-noise
free-improvisation
electro-acoustic-improvisation
electro-acoustic-composition
art-punk
printed-matter

the sound projector (uk) #tsp 13 mag

“the sound projector 13th issue 2005” magazine

articles & interviews with those mentioned below
hundreds of record reviews

slow boat arrived carrying reinforcements of this very popular (well, amidst mms customers anyways) magazine/mission-stat(e)ment

completely out-doing himself with the “2005” edition, mr. pinsent herein breaks mold by including a column entitled “the chartists” which covers everything from the bryan adams/mel c collaboration to kylie/destiny’s child/puffy amiyumi, which then descends into a full-length article on the monkees followed by a length breakdown on the reissued “smile”. unreal.

by far my favorite contemporary music magazine, long may its spirit soar...

the sound projector press release...

the lamenting octopus bears illustrious intelligence of elation. the sound projector thirteenth issue. lavish musical artefacts pouring from the horn of plenty. can tomorrow be more than the end of today?

published january 2005 - 170pp, fully indexed, digital printing, life-enhancing qualities embedded into each page.

interesting interviews with musical folk: my cat is an alien outer-space guitar duo from turin, italy. the vitamin b12 mysterious art music project based in brighton uk. rhodri davies classically trained welsh harpist, pioneer of quiet improvisation. ronnie sundin ultra-quiet electronicist from sweden. edward ruchalski very idiosyncratic and isolationist approach. leap-seconds duo of uk minimalist players. murmer from experimental theatre to field recording assemblage records.

words! fear! grapes! hairiness! reindeer! flight! myths!

the usual full-to-capacity record review sections include: in a substantial pop music feature by harley richardson and friends, 1990s hit singles are analysed in 'the chartists', the monkees are celebrated, brian wilson’s smile is reappraised yet again! - lovely screeching dense racket in atoms of pure noise - satanic heavy metal from norway and other nordic lands in black metal - electronic and laptop music - dull droning monotony - amplifier humming and process din - environmental recordings and derivatives - modern composers and installation music - japanese rock, pop, avant and electronic music - substantial merzbow reviews and portrait - more releases from those uk anti-art merchants the new blockaders - crazy usa underground guitar bands, noise, folksters, experimenters, and droners - an amazing fred lane record reissue - the amplify 02 box set - inaudible electronic music + inaudible improvised music - great guitar and heavy beat noise rock - electroacoustic and tape manipulation - an exploration of worlds of the strange and bizarre in the utter freakdom

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